US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Remote operation apparatus capable of restricting connection between an image forming apparatus and another remote operation apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,563, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Remote operation apparatus capable of restricting connection between an image forming apparatus and another remote operation apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Takeru Imamura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote operation apparatus including a setting unit configured to set whether or not to restrict connection between an image forming apparatus and another remote operation apparatus other than a remote operation apparatus, and a control unit configured to give an instruction to restrict the connection between the ...